Production Supervisor

Responsibilities

• Enforces strict safety guidelines and company standards
• Ensures the safe use of equipment and schedules regular maintenance
• Must attend bi-weekly safety walks
• Must promote STOP for Supervision
• Becomes an active member of the safety committee and attends monthly safety committee meetings
• Must complete weekly STOP observations
• Ensures work performed is in compliance with written safety policies and procedures
• Conducts JSA’s before a new procedure/machine/product is implemented
• Sets daily/weekly/monthly objectives and communicates them to team members
• Organizes workflow by assigning responsibilities and preparing schedules
• Identifies issues in efficiency and suggest improvements
• Conducts self within the interest of the company at all times including time spent away from work
• Opens and closes facility when required
• Must keep facility secured
• Oversees and coaches employees
• Provides direct supervision for production team members
• Enforces fair and equal disciplinary practices to all production team members
• Delivers timely discipline
• Ensures timely performance reviews are given to all production team members
• Submits reports on performance and progress
• Supports performance improvement plans (PIPs)
• Provides timely and accurate time, attendance, vacation, material usage and quantity completed documentation
• Ensures all preventive and emergency repairs to machinery and equipment are completed
• Assures each area is clean and that 5S principles are used throughout the facility
• Ensures standard operating procedures are established and followed
• Resolves production issues on the floor
• Acknowledges urgency and when to move issues to the next level
• Resolves HR issues on the floor
• Recognizes when to escalate issues to Human Resources
• Inspects work performed to ensure compliance with quality and technical specifications
• Understands process to stop production and resolves issues going to the next level
• Establishes a comprehensive cross training program to establish that each machine/area is staffed by a qualified team member
• Ensures work performed is in compliance with written ISO procedures
• Creates an atmosphere that promotes constant process improvement
• Performs other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree or equivalent from two-year College or technical school; or three to five years related experience and or training
• Prefer Bachelor’s degree
• Must have excellent planning and organizational skills
• Must be able to work comfortably with other departments
• Must have a lean manufacturing background
• Must have experience working and being fully responsible for a 2nd Shift
• Must be able to make decisive and independent decisions
• Experience supervising in a union environment a plus
• Ability to read, write and speak in English
• Able to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical customers and internal staff
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language
• Excellent organizational, leadership, communication, and analytical skills
• Intermediate knowledge of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook and the ability to learn new software as required
• Medium work - Lifting up to 50 pounds, and/or up to 20 pounds frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of constantly to move objects
• Moving over 50 pounds requires a lifting device or team lift
• Stand / Sit
• Walk
• Use hands/fingers
• Stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl
• Talk/hear
• See
• Push/pull/reach
• Repetitive motion
• The employee works in the office of a manufacturing plant environment with normal exposure to noise, dust, and hazards associated with working in a high traffic, heavy machinery, manufacturing plant